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Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past: Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias |
Toby Green; Benedetta Rossi (Volume Editors)
Brill
Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past: Essays in Honour of Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias
Chapter 15 In Praise of History; History as Praise
Authors

Karin Barber

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1674442266982_9345864

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312–331

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Contents
Toby Green; Benedetta Rossi
Introduction. Thick Contextualisation: Interpreting West African Landscapes, Sources, and ProjectsBenedetta Rossi and Toby Green
Toby Green; Benedetta Rossi
1–22
Chapter 1 All that Glitters is Not Gold: Facing the Myths of Ancient Trade between North and Sub-Saharan Africa
Sonja Magnavita; Carlos Magnavita
25–45
Chapter 2 African Archaeology and the ‘Chalk Line Effect’: A Consideration of Māli City and Siğilmāsa
François-Xavier Fauvelle
46–62
Chapter 3 The ‘Pays Dô’ and the Origins of the Empire of Mali
Kevin C. MacDonald; Nikolas Gestrich; Seydou Camara; Daouda Keita
63–88
Chapter 4 Imitation and Creativity in the Establishment of Islam in Oyo
Insa Nolte
91–115
Chapter 5 Fante ‘Origins’: The Problematic Evidence of ‘Tradition’
Robin Law
116–134
Chapter 6 The Unknowns of the Modern Era in the Greater Western Sahara: Reassessing the Territorial Location of the Wlād Dlaym (15th–17th Centuries)
Benjamin Acloque
135–155
Chapter 7 The Almoravids and Ašʿarism: Regarding the Work of al-Murādī al-Ḥaḍramī
Abdel Wedoud Ould-Cheikh
156–178
Chapter 8 Inscribing the Now and the Hereafter: First Writings in Early African History
Ghislaine Lydon
181–200
Chapter 9 New Reinventions of the Sahel: Reflections on the Taʾriḫ Genre in the Timbuktu Historiographical Production, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries
Mauro Nobili
201–219
Chapter 10 Calibrating the Scholarship of Timbuktu
Charles C. Stewart
220–238
Chapter 11 Rethinking the Place of Timbuktu in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
Bruce S. Hall
239–258
Chapter 12 Two Examples of Sahelian Book Collectors Over Two Centuries
Shamil Jeppie
259–274
Chapter 13 The Time-Tested Traditionist: Intellectual Trajectory and Mediation from the Early Empires to the Present Day
Mamadou Diawara
277–295
Chapter 14 The Next Generation: Young Griots’ Quest for Authority
Jan Jansen
296–311
Chapter 15 In Praise of History; History as Praise
Karin Barber
312–331
Chapter 16 From Essentialism to Pluralisms: New Directions in Precolonial West African History from the Oral History Archive at Fajara, The Gambia
Toby Green
332–352
Chapter 17 Dreamworlds: Cultural Narrative in Asante Visionary Experience
Thomas C. McCaskie
353–376
Chapter 18 The Life of a Text: Carsten Niebuhr and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aġa’s Das innere von Afrika
Camille Lefebvre
379–399
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